It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and … - Tom Waits

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Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.

Tom Waits

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

Avoid, Doing You, Old Habits, Stop, Things, Together

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I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

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Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

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Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

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I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

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New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on skills and knowledge to their peers here. I am certain their stints abroad will make them better artists and mentors. It will teach them discipline and independence. It will broaden their horizons.

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Roy Romer

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

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Willy Mason

I'm definitely seeing more and more new people at shows, which is exciting. It's nice for me, because it's a fresh start. I don't feel as obligated to play old favorite songs - it feels like I'm free to try new things because I'm meeting people for the first time. But there's a lot of people who are showing up and they know all the words to the first album and they're requesting songs from the second album.

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